Officials for the privately held firm announced that a “major oil company” ordered XetaWave radios to support its wireless communications across 15,000 sites in the Bakken Shale region. XetaWave did not disclose the company’s name.

“When you start a company you come up with a business plan,” XetaWave CEO Jonathan Sawyer said. “We just blew away that business plan. … It’s like grabbing onto a racehorse and holding on while you get dragged along.”

XetaWave’s 22-person workforce at its Valtec Lane facility currently is cranking out roughly 150 radios a week. That should grow to 750-per-week within four months, Sawyer said, adding the firm most likely will have to hire about five to 10 people and move to larger quarters within Boulder County.

“We’re very pleased about (the growth) and a little shell-shocked about how we’re going to be able to grow as fast as our customers want us to grow,” Sawyer said.